Espionage Act of 1917

— So it turns out Hillary Clinton will face a serious challenger in the primaries, after all. Her name is Hillary Clinton. Last week's revelation that she used only private email to conduct her public business as secretary of state is not a knockout blow to the likely Democratic presidential nominee; she has weathered worse. But it is a needless, self-inflicted wound, and it stems from the same flaws that have caused Clinton trouble in the past — terminal caution and its cousin, obsessive secrecy. In trying so hard to avoid mistakes — in this case, trying to make sure an embarrassing email or two didn't become public — Clinton made a whopper of an error....

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